Unsung Story developer jumps ship three years after $660,000 Kickstarter campaign

Little Orbit also is taking a gamble on its own creativity and said that the project is starting entirely from scratch. Most likely, it will use the ideas and story of Yasumi Matsuno, which it praised in the email, but it won’t be using any of the resources that Playdek created over the last three years.

 We need to focus on the original single player game and Matsuno’s design that was promoted during the campaign. And that is exactly what we are going to do. At this point, our primary goal is to separate the years of modifications and changes that were made while Playdek attempted to deliver something to their backers.

Backers will be happy about the return to single-player, which Playdek proposed it would scrapping in favor of PVP.

I recognize that this project is now more than 2 years late from when it was originally supposed to ship, but rather than jump into lofty promises, I want to level set expectations with a bit of both bad and good news.

No reason to panic since we wrote this off years ago

More power to Little Orbit for undertaking this. I won’t slag them for their resume since they are at least working, actively have jobs, and trying to make it in a cut-throat industry. I’ll actually commend them and wish them the best of luck with this because, who knows, it might even be their big break when all is said and done.

As for the game itself, my expectations haven’t changed one bit. I wrote this off a while ago, and until I start seeing some progress, I won’t change that point of view. That’s not to say I’ll hold it against Little Orbit for ultimately not being able to deliver. As far as I’m concerned, they are doing backers a favor, trying to deliver on a game they wouldn’t be getting otherwise.

As usual, Unsung Story remains something I’ll check in on every now and then.

Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2017/08/02/unsung-story-developer-jumps-ship-three-years-after-660000-kickstarter-campaign/